My Pregnancy

Eating a well-rounded diet with all of the right nutrients is crucial for a healthy outcome of pregnancy. For most normal-weight pregnant women, the right amount of calories is:

– First trimester:  1,800 calories per day 

– Second trimester: 2,200 calories per day

– Third trimester: 2,400 calories per day

Eating right amount if calories with right proportions of nutrients can prevent following.

– Gestational diabetes

– The chance of needing a C-section

– Poor healing

– Anemia and infections in the mother

– Early birth of small baby 

– A low birth-weight baby

Recommended weight gain during pregnancy relevant to pre- pregnancy weight is following.